1) A Trump campaign employee and alleged coconspirator sought to foment chaos at the TCF ballot processing center in Detroit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
2) Trump sidelined his campaign leal team on Nov. 13, putting RUdy Giuliani (CC1) in charge because he was willing to lie about the election results.
2) Pence told Trump he saw no evidence of outcome-determinative fruad. They had MANY conversations, some detailed in Pence's book, which prosecutors cite.
3) Smith says he plans to prove at trial that Trump and his alies made up claims about noncitizen voters out of whole cloth.
4) Trump repeatedly promised to "package up" and provide evidence to Gov. Ducey, Gov. Kemp and Rusty Bowers re: election fraud but never did.
6) A U.S. senator (P27) helped facilitate a Dec. 8 call between Trump and Georgia AG Chris Carr.
7) Trump clearly addressed Carr as a political candidate, per Smith's filing, saying "we're running out of time," talked about the Georgia runoffs and electing Loeffler/Perdue. He told Carr not to lobby other AGs against signing onto a Supreme Court amicus brief.
8) Trump asked RNC chairwoan Ronna McDaniel to meet with Michigan GOP leaders but she said she coudln't because it could be considered lobbying.
Trump dialed her in anyway.
9) Rudy tried to text a Michigan GOP leader a proposed resolution declaring the election in dispute -- but he sent it to a wrong number.
10) On Nov. 20, Trump muted his phone while Sidney Powell was talking and mocked her repeatedly, calling her claims "crazy" and making a Star Trek reference.
11) Ronna McDANIEL told turp she would not promote a report claiming Dominion voting machines had been manipulated in Michigan's Antrip county, in part because she had been told the report was "fucking nuts."
12) Ken Chesebro (CC5) was instructed by co-conspirator 6 to only communicate by text with him and John Eastman.
13) Smith provides details of private texts and conversations Trump was having with alleged co-conspirators just around Christmas, all related to the pressure campaign against Mike Pence.
14) Trump spoke to Bannon on Jan. 5 less than two hours before Bannon predicted on his War Room podcast that "all hell is going to break loose" on Jan. 6.
15) When Trump allies learned that Pence's lawyer, Greg Jacob, had refused to back up their plan to subvert the election, Bannon (P1) responded, "Fuck his lawyer."
16) ! Trump was *alone* in the Oval Office dining room when he tweeted his attack on Pence, prosecutors say, even as the Fox News broadcast he had on made clear the Capitol had been breached and was locked down.
17) Smith lays out more details of Giuliani's effort to lobby lawmakers to continue challenging election results even as the Capitol remained locked down and police were clearing the building.
NEWS: Jack Smith reveals his most detailed and damaging evidence of Trump's scheme to subvert the 2020 election, from repeating fraud claims he knew to be false and tweeting his Jan. 6 attack on Pence while alone in a WH dining room.
Jack Smith says Trump made knowingly false claims about election fraud in 2020.
Trump, responding to the new filing, makes knowingly false claims about why this document was released today.
(It was filed on Sept. 26 and unsealed by Judge Chutkan — not DOJ — today)
MORE: WHen Trump was informed that Pence was taken to a secure location during the Jan. 6 violence — just minutes after Trump had attacked him in a tweet — Smith says Trump's response to an aide was "So what?"
Smith plans to introduce evidence fome an FBI forensic examiner showing Trump's phone use on Jan. 6 —- and tha the was using the Twitter app consistently throughout the day after his speech.
Per Smith, Trump told Ivanka and Jared Kushner: "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell."
MORE DETAILS: Per Smith's filing, Trump told Eric Herschmann that he would only pay Rudy if he succeded, Herschmann assured him he would never have to pay Rudy anything. Trump laughed and said "We'll see."
John EASTMAN (CC2) told Rusty Bowers to call the legislature back into session — even though he didn't have legal authority to do so — and "let the courts sort it out," per Smith
NEW: Here are some of the most striking and notable details in Jack Smith's new filing revealing previously unreleased evidence about Trump's effort to subvert the 2020 election.
MORE: Rudy Giuliani (CC1) orchestrated the ouster of RNC legal counsel Justin Riemer (P43), after Riemer contradicted his claims of fraud.
Others: Justin Clark (P3), Eric Herschmann (P9) Jenna Ellis (P12), Ronna McDaniel (P39)
Former Rep. Thomas Marino (P57) dropped out as a Trump elector designee because he thought the false elector plan was illegal, Smith says.
When PA electors resisted signing documents without a caveat, Trump campaign aides (including Jenna Ellis, P12) mocked them. "Whoever selected this slate should be shot," one of the aides said.
NOTABLE: Jack Smith suggests Trump "resumed" daily converastions with Steve BANNON (P1) around the time his focused turned to pressuring Pence. Bannon's purported role is detailed more granularly here than anywhere else. (He's currently in jail for defying J6 committee subpoena)
IMPORTANT: Here is a clear example of Jack Smith breaking executive privilege (left) where the Jan. 6 committee could not (right).
Trump asked Pat Cipollone (P59) to *leave* the Jan. 4 meeting with John Eastman, per Smith. Cipollone wouldn't discuss that moment with Congress.
By pushing Cipollone out of the room, Trump ensured that Pence did not hear a dissenting voice (at least from the Trump side) on whether Eastman's plan to block Biden's Electoral College win could work.
MORE: Jack Smith says Trump sent or directed the sending of all tweets form his @ realdonaldtrump account -- and other than him, only Dan Scavino (P45) had access to the account.
Smith plans to call Scavino at trial to discuss Trump's Twitter habits.
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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg says he believes the Trump administration "acted in bad faith" on the day of the Alien Enemies Act deportations.
Boasberg says his impression is that "if you really believed everything you did that day was legal and would survive a court challenge, you wouldn’t have operated the way you did"
He notes that Trump signed the proclamation on Friday, March 14 but it wasn't made public until Saturday the 15th in the afternoon. Yet in the meantime, ICE teed up more than 100 purported Venezuelans for summary deportation well before it was made public.
Boasberg began the hearing by ticking through a set of undisputed facts, with the Trump administration lawyer agreeing to each.
-"My TROs did not order any TdA member to be released from custody"
-"The TROs did not prevent the govenrment from apprehending any TdA member."
-The TROs, he noted, also did not bar the administration from deporting any TdA member through other well-established processes.
BOASBERG emphasizing that it was luck that he was available at 7:30AM on Saturday morning to hear the lawsuit — filed at 1:12AM — to block some of the Alien Enemies Act deportations. He notes that the rush appeared intended to avoid litigation and court scrutiny.
Boasberg notes that despite the concerns he raised at the early morning hearing, and the fact that he scheduled a 5pm hearing, the government continued to race to put people on planes and have them take off before he could rule.
He notes the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the government has admitted was on the 3rd plane (though not an Alien Enemies Act deportee) erroneously.
NEW: Marko Elez is back in govt (and has been for weeks); Amy Gleason’s job is to recommend DOGE detailees to agencies (who can say no), Luke Farritor has access to 12 sensitive databases.
Here are the details on Farritor’s extensive access as well as the system’s Elez can see. politico.com/news/2025/03/2…
Here is the access for Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt, who has access to an HHS system related to “unaccompanied alien children.” politico.com/news/2025/03/2…
BREAKING: A second federal judge has barred the military from enforcing its ban on transgender service members. Details TK storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Judge Settle, a George W. Bush appointee, says the Trump administration provided no evidence that transgender service members negatively affect readiness, unit cohesion or lethality.
Here is the description of one of the transgender plaintiffs who would be forced out of the military under the Hegseth policy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Judge Henderson (GHW Bush appointee) bases her ruling almost entirely on determination that Trump failed to justify claim of "invasion" or "predatory incursion." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Judge Millett (Obama) is focused more on due process and the failure to afford any to the people Trump claimed were members of Tren de Aragua. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg has taken the bench as he weighs whether to vacate his restraining order on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
Boasberg comes in hot: Wants to know why the lawyer who originally argued the case didn't show up to hearing Monday. He says the filings since have used "the kind of intemperate and disrespectful language I’m not used to hearing from the United States."
DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign says he believed Boasberg intended the planes to be turned around when he issued his oral order in court over the wekend: "I understood the intent that you meant that to be effective at that time."
BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security systems, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data.
NEW: Judge Hollander ruled that DOGE was granted unusual access to non-anonymized social security data and could not identify any basis for that degree of access.
She wants access limited, installed software removed and data taken out of SSA destroyed.
MORE: Judge Hollander called it ironic that DOGE demanded anonymity for their staffers but “did not appear to share a privacy concern” for people whose data could be exposed at Social Security. politico.com/news/2025/03/2…